SIS Tool is a PC program for examining sis files (designed with the Sony Ericsson UIQ phones in mind). It shows you information about the selected sis file (including the size it will use on installation, version numbering and more). Well worth a look if you use lots of third party software.
Mobile NewsGrabber is a newsreader and RSS reader program. The news reader allows access to USENET server and includes support for offline browsing. The RSS reader allows you to download and read RSS files offline.
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Steve Litchfield takes up the baton on our in depth look at the 9500. Part four takes a critical and detailed look at the Nokia 9500's multimedia capabilities, through video, audio and still pictures.
Steve Litchfield has made a start at a Nokia 9500 tips page over at 3-Lib - see what you think. The 9500 is tremendously powerful but also fairly complex for beginners to cope with. Maybe Nokia should put an IQ-warning on it? Hopefully, the tips page will help...
Finally some companies are starting to realise that the power users are the likey to creatue new features, and value, not large programing houses and think tanks (see The Feature). Having free development languges and tools aimed at different skill sets, allowing anyone to create programs, was one of the strong points in the EPOC OS (the predecessor of Symbian OS). It looks like the same lessons are being painfully learned again.
"Advanced Processor, advanced 3G networking, advanced OS (Symbian 8.0a), and enough RAM to only run one app at a time. I am astounded," writes Russ Beattie. The 6630 is a lovely phone and scores in every department expect one, and as usual, that one thing kind of pulls the phone down in the must have stakes. Russ wonders if it is because Nokia are leaving you a reason to upgrade to a newer model in a few months...
Not Symbian news, thankfully, but info about a competitor. There's something of a storm in the Palm OS world about the recent news of PalmSource switching future direction to being a software/GUI company based on a Linux OS. As someone who had a brief love affair with a Palm IIIc about five years ago, which was nice and simple at all levels, seeing the continuing confusion in their OS and the general mess they've since made of most things at a technical level (e.g. VFS), is really rather sad. Interesting reading here for Christmas.
Mobileways has announced Remote S80 which allows you to control your Nokia 9500 from your desktop or PC. It operates via a Java 1.0 applet in any browser. You can also view file listings from your Communicator in your browser. You connect via the WLAN functionality.
And we thought the Holy Grail was hard to find. Christopher has managed to anger a few gods and tracked down a retail copy of Sega Rally for the N-Gage. It turns out the Chase was better than the game, as he tells us just how bad a game can be in his review. Colin McRae Rally (reviewed yesterday) is far superior in almost every respect.
More OPL freeware goodies from Steve Litchfield, this time with Pixel Tester - it cylces through a full screen of colours so you can see which pixels are dead and get your phone down to the repair shop as soon as possible.
RMR Software's final few OPL apps have now been updated for the 9500 and 9300 devices (and they already run on all 92x0 devices). Included in this round of updates are RMRFruit, their Fruit Machine simulator.
UIQ have named Tegic Communications into the UIQ Selected Program (announces UIQ and Tegic). Tegic are a subsidiary of AOL, and manage the T9 Text Input Software. As part of the UIQ Selected program, the T9 option can be presented as an 'optional, fully tested add on' to UIQ licencees.
iSilo is one of the most popular eBook and Document readers available for Palm OS, Pocekt PC and Windows Mobile. Now at version 4.2, they've announced a beta version for UIQ devices. They're looking for solid feedback on the application. If it's half as good as the Palm OS version, then all the current eBook readers better be ready to raise their game.
